LOL! i feel for all you pencil pushing office go-ers, pretty much the reasons why i love my job... i don't get the majority of this BS, dont get me wrong construction still has those douche bags that smell but its easy to avoid them when there are 200+ electricians on a site lol i would pull a Columbine if i worked in a 3ft by 3ft cubical dealing with the same people and their BS day in and day out...
My manager, who I SWEAR is bipolar, will be nice and polite, even make a few jokes one day, then flips her S**T when she misunderstands an email I send her.
The guy that sits next to me who just started who will, without asking, move up right beside me in his chair and stare over my shoulder at what I'm reading/working on. And cannot take a hint that it PASSES me off. Also taps his foot annoying on his chair.....and makes the loudest sound I've ever heard someone make while drinking.
Another co-worker who says "mmhmmm" WAY too much any time she is discussing something, as though it makes her sound understanding or smart.
No, noo
I as well work in trades and for the most part it's great working with a group of guys.
- my old foreman; Mr. Know-it-all, is the most ignorant mofo that I know (biggest focking racist douchebag). Just looking at him pisses me off
- an older fella almost about to retire, Bill. Stinks like shit EEEEVERRYDAAAY! It's his focking breath that kills me and worst of all since he's going deaf he comes right at you (less than a foot away and talks straight face to face)
- "Chris"/24yrs old/1st yr apprentice - another "know-it-all" but is full of shit. Always complains how he's tired
- "Charlie"/20yrs old/1st yr apprentice - has it good cause his uncle runs the site; is absolutely the laziest muthafocking worker EVER!
When on a construction you run into all kinds of these.
For me the worst ones are LAZY union guys ( I'm non union). And not all union guys are lazy.
I've actually been removed from a job site due to the union complaining we were making them look bad. 3 guys did 10 floors in 1 week. ( putting in windows ) while 10 guys took 1 week per floor. They were almost 3 mnths behind and we caught them up in a week.
The good news is when that companies union contract came up. They didn't renew. So we got more work.
I know what you're saying I used to be non-union but then got in the union and for some odd reason some of the union guys have the idea that they shouldn't work like a dog but rather take it nice and easy. Don't really get the concept myself however that's pretty crazy how you manage to almost catch up in a week compared to there 3 month slack. That's just insane!
I work with one lady...she's 46 and I am her boss at the tender age of 22. I've been fortunate enough to divert her from working with me for at least the foreseeable future but the couple weeks I had to bear with her I could have shot her....or myself, I guess. She would constantly complain about shit (the heat, her life, her boyfriend, etc) and say the dumbest possible things in the process. I've had to yell at her numerous times however now that she's not working with me she has become slightly more bearable.
The one time that really pissed me off was one day we had a couple hundred VSO (Vehicle Shipping Orders) to distribute and we each had a stack of maybe 150 papers. I put mine in the back seat of our company vehicle and she sat hers square on her lap. I did a few oddball ones myself off her pile with her simply handing them to me (there were 1-2 per zone so I figured I could do them myself).
The problem started when we got to a major zone where over half of the papers would be distributed. We arrived, I parked our car and began to open my door when she reached over and handed me about 5 papers and gave me this "go do them" look. I turned to her, stared at her for a second and asked politely "What the **** are you doing?" She proceeded to tell me that she could not go out and hand out her papers BECAUSE THEY WERE SITTING ON HER LAP. I then proceeded and said "do you see what I've done with my papers? I've put them in the backseat, and I plan to grab handfulls at a time and distribute them accordingly, so put the effin' papers down, take as many as you can hold, get the eff out and start doing the papers" She was absolutely astonished, however she then proceeded to do them as I instructed. It's honestly amazing how some people think....
Her constant complaining also pissed me off. I decided we were working ~30 minutes overtime one day because we hadn't completed our work, and she then told me she couldn't do her easy job of writing numbers on papers because she was feeling sick and exhausted from the heat. I told her okay, that's fine, go sit in our vehicle and I'll do them. She started to complain to me about how I don't NEED to do them (she had only been with us 2-3 days at this point) and how she's so sick and she's gonna die and she's also going to crap herself (yes, she said that). I told her to go to the washroom (which are way above average facilities at my work, btw) and do her business if she needed to and I'll finish up the job and once I'm done we can go home, but she insisted that she would not. I then proceeded to do both my job and her job while she yelled complaints out of her car the entire time about how much she was suffering. I mean, I'm sorry, but if you're going to complain to me all friggin' day about working out in the heat, when I'm enduring the same heat as you, then I can't help or be sympathetic to you really, especially when I'm already doing your damn job for you, and I especially don't care about your personal problems at work, so keep your embarrassing life to yourself, please.
I'll end it with the day of her first paycheque. She came into work after working with me for 2 weeks and already at 8am was complaining about how she's had no money in over a month, and her boyfriend wouldn't even give her $20 and she has absolutely no gas in her shitty 92 Ford rustbucket of a pickup truck to get to our office HQ and pick up her pay (she didn't have direct deposit setup at that point). She told me that in the morning before work she had exactly $8 to her name, and while at the gas station she debated between buying gas or a pack of smokes with that money. She said she went with the smokes because she was "too embarrassed" to put $8 of gas in her car. When someone has that kind of a mentality towards life, that alone speaks for itself in depicting the type of person you all can imagine her to be.
/rant.
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I work for the "Loblaws-Asian-Supermarket-which-I-must-not-put-any-obvious-names-because-HR-actually-gave-me-a-warning-once-for-some-crap-that-I-posted-on-the-net"
Being paid slightly above minimum wage based on my work performance, my boss and supervisors label me as the "aisle supervisor" because apparently I gave enough ****s about what I do.
So every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, I have to work with this woman who seems to be so damn self-centered about her assigned aisles.
Let's get this straight...our store sucks, sales aren't great compared to the other stores, therefore we can't hire more people and allocate more hours. My boss tells us that because of our current situation, we must help each other out, finish the restocking before dinner time, regardless of what the assigned aisles we get.
EVERY ****ING WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY...she just STAYS at the assigned aisles and never helps me and my fellow co-worker. Price checks are ALWAYS IGNORED, even when there are at times when 4 cashiers call for a price check at the same time, she doesn't even BUDGE. Even when performing closing procedures, she still does her assigned aisles so I end up doing such a half-assed front facing (you know...make the canned soup and shit straight and perfect).
Fine. I don't care. I'm not your boss, I have no right to say anything to you for those actions.
However, she has ticked me off not once, but twice!
I am responsible for pulling out skids of inventory, she doesn't even need to do jack shit other than do the restocking on her aisles. We usually get about 3-4 skids of inventory every day, but I pull out 1-2 just to see how things are going.
Since the 2 skids are dealt with, and we still had about 1 hour till dinner time, I pulled half a skid out (with 98% of the items belong to my assigned aisles and not hers). SHE HAD THE GUTS TO COME UP TO ME AND TELL ME THAT WE CAN'T FINISH IT. I told her that it's the boss and the store manager's orders to pull out the items anyways...if we can't finish it, then we'll drag it back into the receiving area. Then she tells me that "That isn't your job, why should you listen to them?" I was shocked for about a minute and just walked away restocking everything in 30 minutes with time to spare. My boss came over and asked if I'm ok, I said "NO, I'm NOT OK...WITH HER..." So my boss proceeds to cut her shifts down to 1. Yes. 1.
Some time last week, I did the same thing again...she comes up to me and says "It's almost 6, why are you pulling out more?" I look at my watch, it says 5:30. In my mind, I was thinking "GEE, DOES IT EVEN ****ING MATTER? ALL THIS STUFF IN MY CART ARE ALL MY AISLE, IT'S NOT THAT YOU'RE GONNA HELP ME."
So I just responded with a "eh, don't care".
Seriously...I get yelled by my bosses for NOT taking stuff out of the receiving area. Even the receiving supervisor tells me to move that shit out quickly. Now I get yelled by a co-worker that works only 1 shift COMPARED TO MY 5 and thinks she has the dam right to tell me what I CAN AND CANNOT DO? I wish my boss could just fire her for being so useless...
If she tells me the same thing again, I will honestly just say whatever comes out of my mind next time. I don't even care if I get fired for it...
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i'm sorry but Woman + Boss title = BAD combination.
a few other things that piss me off at work....
- there are TWO doors at the entrance to the building, why does everyone try to funnel through ONE door? Man open the other door
- people who hit 'reply all' i swear IT dept needs to disable that button from people's e-mail programs
- the ONE guy who comes into work, spends 1 hour walking around saying good morning and chit chatting with everyone before starting his day
- people who run into the bathroom at 9:58am, drop a power shit and run out at 10:00am for thier next meeting.
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My whole floor is open concept so its a "cubicle" per say. I can get up and take a break when I want, I can go to Timmies when I want..
I will 100% keep this over my old job as a mover. Standing in a 53foot metal trailer that can get to 120degrees in the summer easily vs my nice air conditioned office....Not to mention I make 3 X as much.
I also have my headphones in 99% of the day, if someone needs me they can msn or email me..
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No way, that's plain cruel.I wonder how they delivered the news... "Hi Mr./Ms. Smith., unfortunately we will have to let you go because the odour that your body emits is unbearable." (professional enough?)
Again, a little on the cruel side, but funny!![]()
My solution to these kind of people (every office has them) - headphones. I listen to music all day not because I enjoy the songs, but because I just don't want to listen to everybody chewing/eating/whistling/chewing
People who eat their garlic and onion filled lunchs at their desk...the whole floor stinks!
srs! hahaha
these keeners LOVE thier job so much being on thier knees all day, you'd be at the urinal....then hear the door bust open and running to the stall, and before you blink the guy forced out a deuce as if he's got a gun pointed to his head to deliver a baby, runs out and splashes water on his hand and runs back out the door
all this while your still standing there LOL
I work with the most condescending woman of all time. In her mid 40's and is semi attractive but thinks she's 25 and belongs on the cover of magazines. Starts every sentence with "sweety" and can't do ANYTHING herself.
"Sweety how do I get to yorkdale from here?"
"Take dufferin"
"and then what?"
STFU
"Sweety, can you call this place for me and ask if their open?"
"Sweety when you're in tomorrow can you call my client?"
While standing RIGHT next to a stack of papers that she needs
"Sweety can you grab that paper for me?"
"you're right next to it..."
"yeah but someones waiting for me"
"ok so how does that stop you from getting it?"
etc...
How do people like this get through life?
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drive slow homie...
You're not far off from what I actually did one day. She knows she condescending too so one day she says (while sitting at a round table with 3 other employees) "sweety do you mind bringing me my sales list?" to which i responded "its about 2 feet away can't you get it"
She jokingly says "oh common be a good doggy"
So i went and grabbed her sales list and when She reached out for it i dropped it in the trash right next to her, just missing her hand.
"next time, be a good doggy and get it yourself".
YUP